Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. NetHappenings 8-30-2020

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BUSINESS — WHO SAID CRIME DOESN’T PAY?
  1. A closer look at greasy palms – Bribery pays—if you don’t get caught
  2. Fortnite ‘black-market’ part of billion-dollar hacker economy
  3. Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS Apps With Billions Of Installs Causing ‘Major Privacy Concerns To Hundreds Of Millions Of Consumers
  4. Jed McCaleb, Ripple Co-Founder, Reportedly Dumps Millions of XRP Daily
  5. The block chain is called “Ledger” in Ripple
  6. How the Sacklers Shifted $10.8 Billion of an Opioid Fortune Built on OxyContin
  7. SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
  8. Piracy On Wednesday, three indictments were unsealed against members of “the Scene,” an elite tier of people who rip movies and put them on the internet for free.
  9. “I love hotel room “safes”

 

EDUCATION – DIGITAL DIVIDE BEEN HERE SINCE 1994

“bandwidth egalitarianism”

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TRACING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE SINCE FROM FOREVER
The Communications Act of 1934
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BLACK LIVES MATTER – POOR PEOPLE – BANDWIDTH – ERATE SCAMS
SCREW COMCAST
When will Comcast understand they are running a utility?

Telephone Service: telco tricks do not provide telephone or broadband service

  • 50% of these stu­dents do not have access to a com­put­er and more than 40% do not have inter­net access
  • 7,000,000
  • 30% of U.S. Indige­nous fam­i­lies access the inter­net only through a phone (if at all)
  • 30% of year­ly read­ing gains and more than 50% of year­ly math gains could be lost for stu­dents who received no instruc­tion since March
  • 52% few­er K – 5 stu­dents in low-income house­holds used the online plat­form Zearn Math in May than in Jan­u­ary, while high-income stu­dents used it more
  • $1,778,139 in addi­tion­al fund­ing could be need­ed for pan­dem­ic-relat­ed staff and logis­tics to reopen an aver­age 3,659-student dis­trict, yet many face cuts
INTERNET
On L3/CTL’s request, we’ve disabled all peering sessions until the situation is under control. Great to see industry-wide cooperation at what is undoubtably a hard time for AS3356.
[outages] Level3 (globally?) impacted (IPv4 only)

5G in US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits
Average 5G download speeds in the US are 50.9Mbps, a nice step up from average 4G speeds but far behind several countries where 5G speeds are in the 200Mbps to 400Mbps range. These statistics were reported today by OpenSignal, which presented average 5G speeds in 12 countries based on user-initiated speed tests conducted between May 16 and August 14. The US came in last of the 12 countries in 5G speeds, with 10 of the 11 other countries posting 5G speeds that at least doubled those of the US.

U.S. indicts Russian for attempted ransomware attack on Tesla factory

Chinese-made smartphones are loaded with malware that secretly steals money

This loophole lets the DMV sell your data to private investigators

TikTok must sell its U.S. operations by mid-November over fears that the app could be providing data to Beijing

TikTok Holocaust trend ‘harmful,’ says Auschwitz museum. “The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum and memorial spoke out against a new trend on social media platform TikTok where users role-play as holocaust victims, in a statement released on Wednesday. ‘The “victims” trend on TikTok can be hurtful and offensive,’ said the museum at the site of the former Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in a statement, adding that some of the videos trivialized history.”

DELETE FACEBOOK NOW

Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner investor
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor

Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg’s Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence. Facebook employees slammed  Fucckerberg

A Kenosha Militia Facebook Event Asking Attendees To Bring Weapons Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Didn’t Violate Any Rules

The police are working with them. They’re going to completely overlook the unjust murder and equate property damage as more valuable than life and so RW nationalists with guns are warranted.

Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees. “Facebook Inc on Thursday told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users.”

JUSTICE

The RNC’s Puzzling Obsession with Socialism | Start Blaming the Government Response for the Spread of Covid. With a pandemic ravaging the country, a historically unpopular president and no platform to run on, the Republican Party has set its sights on attacking socialism. It doesn’t seem to be working. [Tech and Unions] inthesetimes.com

Want to Abolish the Police? The First Step Is Putting Them Under Democratic Control.

Leverage Is Everything
The striking NBA players have inherent power, but so do you.

Stop Blaming Individuals for the Spread of Covid and Start Blaming the Government Response By presenting collective, structural crises as separate, individual problems with separate, individualized solutions, the government abdicates its responsibility to meaningfully intervene.

Neither Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting

Justice Department prepares to file a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google

District Court Enters Permanent Injunction Shutting Down Telecom Carriers Who Facilitated Hundreds of Millions of Fraudulent Robocalls to Consumers in The United States.

 

HEALTH

KIDS SILENT CARRIERS—Children can carry the coronavirus in their noses and throats for weeks even if they don’t show any symptoms. “inapparent (asymptomatic) infections in children associated with silent #COVID19 transmission in the community”. Not good.
This demolishes new Trump WH-forced CDC guidelines to not test for asymptomatic cases. Dangerous.

Asymptomatic Children Carry Higher COVID-19 Viral Load Than Adults In ICUs

Household Cleaning

BLACK LIVES MATTER
Astronaut Jeanette Epps to become first Black woman to join an International Space Station crew

Here Are 6 Myths About Masks That People Really Need to Stop Sharing

A tiny Texas company is running most U.S. drive-thru Covid-19 testing

Covid-19 vaccine may be mandatory in Portugal

Nicholas Christakis on fighting covid-19 by truly understanding the virus
The latest coronavirus is different from past ones, so requires a different response

World-first database catalogs 1,000s of viruses in our gut microbiome. “Researchers from Ohio State University have created the first catalog of viral populations known to inhabit the human gut. Called the Gut Virome Database, the study suggests each person’s gut viral population is as unique as their fingerprints.”

A.I. Tool Promises Faster, More Accurate Alzheimer’s Diagnosis. “By detecting subtle differences in the way that Alzheimer’s sufferers use language, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have developed an A.I. algorithm that promises to accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s without the need for expensive scans or in-person testing. The software not only can diagnose Alzheimer’s, at negligible cost, with more than 95 percent accuracy, but is also capable of explaining its conclusions, allowing physicians to double check the accuracy of its diagnosis.”

Anchorage Assembly passes ban on conversion therapy – Alaska Public Media